The risk for incumbent firms is that of the proverbial boiling frog. They may not know when to switch from old to new until it is too late.

相关企业面临的危机，如同谚语沸水煮蛙所述，他们不懂推陈出新，一旦意识到时，却为时已晚。

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The frog in the slowly boiling water also feels warm and comfortable for a while...

在温水中的青蛙只感觉到温暖和舒服，然后……

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So signs of danger abound, but like the proverbial slow-boiling frog, we seem unable to rouse ourselves.

危险迹象大量存在，但如同著名的温水煮青蛙效应，我们似乎不能警醒我们自己。

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For decades, he said, Americans had been like the proverbial frog, boiling unawares by slow degrees in the cauldron of the nanny state.

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Think of higher education as the proverbial frog in boiling water.

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The authors effectively use the boiling frog analogy to explain how union power has grown over the years, and their analogy is apt.

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